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What Linux PDF editors (not viewers) do you use? Do you have particular recommendations? I've found "PDFedit" but not much else. I don't need to edit PDFs often but when I do, I must switch to Windows. I'd like to do so in Linux.

Pretty much any linux word processing program should work...I use Abiword. Open office also works well. There are others. Be aware, though, that most of the word processing programs do not like to open .pdfs. You may have to copy the text from your original .pdf into open office/other, and save two copies: one .pdf, and one native format, for later editing.

I just installed abiword...but I don't see anything in its menu regarding PDF editing. Is there a plugin it requires? I did a quick google but couldn't find much. What a really need is something that will let me

a) convert one data format (word, spreadsheet, webpage, etc) into PDF
b) merge PDF documents and rearrange the order in PDF with multiple pages
c) if I could "type in text" in a PDF that would be great too, but it wouldn't be required

I have the Adobe pdf maker for Windows. I doubt there is anything as comprehensive as that for linux but that is how I meet my current PDF demands.

If you think you are going to edit a PDF like you do a document in Word or abiword, you are mistaken. There is no "formatting" in a PDF. It already rendered, and only gives locations where images and text is stored within boundaries. When you inserted text, all text is not re-"flowed", rather the best that you get is text squishing to allow room in the current chunk. PDF was NEVER designed to be edited in this fashion. The process from doc -> PDF is not a reversible one completely.

If you think you are going to edit a PDF like you do a document in Word or abiword, you are mistaken. There is no "formatting" in a PDF. It already rendered, and only gives locations where images and text is stored within boundaries. When you inserted text, all text is not re-"flowed", rather the best that you get is text squishing to allow room in the current chunk. PDF was NEVER designed to be edited in this fashion. The process from doc -> PDF is not a reversible one completely.

Thank you. That does help somewhat. I suspected I would not be able to edit a pdf as I would a word document, spreadsheet, etc. What about simple tasks such as merging pdf, rearranging pages in a pdf, etc? If I could get away with that, then it would suffice.